Writing Archives - imagiNed Conceptual Artistry

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ROXOFF – Hip New Product Hype Marketing Piece

Posted: July 30, 2020 Categories: Writing Tags: 4x6, Smartsy-Artsy Cards

My imagined article written (30+ years ago) as if written by a hip writer for an (imaginary) hip magazine, hyping an (imaginary) hip new salad dressing.

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Use the word in a sentence: RECTUM

Posted: July 26, 2020 Categories: Writing Tags: 4x6, Memes, Puns, Smartsy-Artsy Cards

TEACHER: Use the word, “rectum” in a sentence. STUDENT: My friend says he’s a good driver, but every car he’s had, he’s wrecked ’em. TEACHER: Really, how so?STUDENT: He keeps getting …

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Dance is Romance between Space and Time

Posted: July 15, 2020 Categories: Writing Tags: 4x6, Imagery, Memes, Poetry, Smartsy-Artsy Cards

Imagine a circle: at eleven o'clock the phrase, "Dance is Romance," arcs across the top. At eight o'clock and two o'clock are two silhouettes. At eight o'clock stands a long-haired woman in a wide-stance back bend, arms extended gracefully above and behind. From the two o'clock position leaps a lithe male dancer, airborne in a bent-leg ballet jete, arms also extended, in front and behind . Between the two silhouettes stretches the word, ~ between ~. The words, "Space and Time," bend beneath like a chair-rocker at five of the clock to complete the circuit.

Evocative imagery illustrated with descriptive prose:

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The BEAST of intimacy

Posted: June 21, 2020 Categories: Writing Tags: 4x6, Animals, Personal, Smartsy-Artsy Cards

Backlit Bison in darkened stall, barely lit nostrils flaring with the "THE BEAST" text overlaying the center-line of the head.

a phrase fragment written in my twenties on how presenting ugliness creates distance

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August Evening ’73 (Supposed)

Posted: April 7, 2020 Categories: Writing Tags: Audio, Personal, Poetry

Photo booth photo of Ned, taken around 1973

Poem written by Ned Buratovich on January 5, 1974 about expectations leading to tense confrontation one August evening in 1973. Audio of Ned’s reading recorded in 2004.

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Somewhere in a pawn shop waits …

Posted: December 24, 2019 Categories: Writing Tags: 4x6, Imagery, Personal, Poetry

Glowing text styled as neon sign saying, PAWN SHOP ~ guns ~ gold ~ BUY ~ SELL ~ TRADE

Somewhere in a pawn shop waits… a pistol. Poem, with premise: obliteration as anodyne.

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Imagine: The Fool, The Priest and The Magician – Ned’s Birthday Fable

Posted: April 1, 2011 Categories: Writing Tags: Personal

The Magician Card from the Rider Waite Tarot Deck

Ned’s meditation on manifestation: “Imagine living the life you imagined” is the magic of the magician. We have creative influence in our lives. Will I imagine living the life I imagined? Now is an extremely auspicious time, always.

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